BalCannes is gathering the best regional projects, and there are three juries deciding on the award winners – agencies, advertisers, and media juries. Below, you can find more information about the experts who will be judging this year’s projects.
BalCannes, a creativity competition, is the place where regional creatives and marketing professionals gather. The projects can be entered in 17 categories, and this year they will be judged by three juries to ensure a just selection of the most prominent projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Agency experts choosing the best projects are:
Tose Arsov (New Moment New Ideas Company Skopje, North Macedonia), Vesna Beganović (Via Media, BIH), Darko Bosnar (Imago Ogilvy, Croatia), Davor Bruketa (Bruketa&Žinić&Grey, Croatia), Žare Kerin (Futura DDB, Slovenia), Ejub Kučuk (MITA Group, BIH), Jana Savić Rastovac (McCann Beograd, Serbia), Milan Stojanov (Publicis Groupe Macedonia, North Macedonia), Jure Tovrljan (Pristop, Slovenia), and Ivan Živković (Pioniri Communications, Serbia).
Experts that will this year be the advertising representatives are:
Katja Fašink (ELES, Slovenia), Maja Grbović (Mercator-S, Serbia), Marija Jakeljić (Croatia osiguranje, Croatia), Anna Maria Librić (JGL, Croatia), Andrea Lizdek (Banjalučka pivara, BIH), Lidija Rakuša (Spar Slovenija, Slovenia), Vildana Skorupan (Telemach, BIH), Stefan Todorovski (Pivara Skopje, North Macedonia), Ratka Tricovska (Stopanska banka AD – Skopje, North Macedonia), and Ivan Žagar (Jaffa, Serbia).
BalCannes Editor’s Pick Award is the special award given to the best project according to the editor’s and media professional’s criteria, and the jury deciding on the winner of this award consists of leading regional media representatives:
Sandra Babić (Lider Media, Croatia), Nenad Danilović (Advertiser Serbia, Serbia), Ekrem Dupanović (Media Marketing, BIH), Boris Eftimofski (Makreting 365, North Macedonia), and Simona Kruhar Gaberšček (Marketing Magazin, Slovenia).
The two-year-long qualification period encompasses projects done in the period from 20 August 2021. until 16 November 2023. You can enter an integrated campaign, as well as parts of a campaign that represent a singular idea created by agencies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.
The late application deadline is pushed back by 11 days, which makes 27 November the final deadline, so make sure you don’t miss the opportunity and enter the projects you have been working on for the last 2 years! Use the insights of these three juries, prove that you deserve your place at the top, and bring home gold, silver, and bronze awards.
Find additional information at the official websitewww.danikomunikacija.com.
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